Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, WITHOUT FIGURES, by EDA LOU WALTON


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WITHOUT FIGURES, by                    
First Line: I will write a poem
Last Line: Touching me.
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets


I will write a poem
Without figures.
I will tell how a tree
Is beautiful
Because it is a tree;
How the sunset sky
Is beyond words,
Being pure color.
I will cry
How mountains are exalted high
Into clouds
Only as mountains may be;
How night on earth,
On sea --
And day --
(In spite of all that poets may say)
Have but the dignity,
The loveliness
God gave them.
And lastly I'll confess
How even your hands,
Touching me,
Are not like apple-petals falling,
Nor blue rain,
Nor children at prayer,
Nor again
Like low insistent calling
Of thunder,
Nor ike to anything life holds
Of ancient wonder,
Save your hands
Touching me.





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